Andrew Morton wrote:> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:> >>>resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the>>>> > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up.>> > >>>> Interesting. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio>> folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work.> > > It seems to be misplaced. A simple make-a-zillion-teeny-files test here> exhibits a 14 millisecond holdoff.> > >> Should I try ext3?> > > ext3 is certainly better than that, but still has a couple of potential> problem spots. ext2 is probably the best at this time.

Does anyone have any data points on XFS in this regard? I agree that ext2 is faster than ext3, and ext3 probably has lower latency than reiser3, but I have no info at all on XFS. My JFS experience is all on AIX, as well, so if anyone has that info it might be interesting as well.

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